While the main body of the conference builds mostly on the above mentioned topics, presentations on yet different disciplines are invited, and vary every year. Such topics include nuclear structure, atomic physics, plasma physics, physics applications (biophysics, medical science and other), biology, mathematics, computing science, and other.

The main conference will be preceded by

- a workshop on "Opportunities from FAIR to other low energy facilities", 28th and 29th of July
- lectures on the 29th and 30th of July.